The site was created towards the end of November 2004 by Steve [Homepage].

Originally I'd had the notion of creating a site to contain my own notes on accomplishing particular system administration jobs.

With my natural preference for Debian and the hope that other people would also contribute their notes this site was born.

The site focus hasn't really changed that much from that initial idea. The goal is still to collect and distribute articles, tutorials, and small snippets of information which would be useful to other system administrators.